The [[@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)|Civil Rights Movement]] in the United States refers to the political movement to gain legal, social and economic equality for African Americans in the US. While slavery had ended over a century earlier, black Americans were systemically kept out of political and social life across America. The southern states were the most egregious in their application of segregation laws.
The video below from the BBC gives some context to the movement.
Civil Rights leaders did not all agree on how equality should be achieved. Martin Luther King , the most famous of Civil Rights leaders, sought equality through non-violent protest. He had his detractors, however, among them Malcolm X from the Nation of Islam and later Stokely Carmichael of the militant Black Panther movement. The videos below illustrate these differences.
King: "I Have a Dream"
Malcolm X: "Who taught you to hate what God gave you"
Malcolm X: Stop Begging The White Man and Stop Apologizing to the White Man
This video mashes clips of Malcolm X's speech with clips from various film texts that reinforced helpless stereotypes of African Americans.
Stokely Carmichael: "We Need a Black United Front"
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What was the Civil Rights Movement?
The [[@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)|Civil Rights Movement]] in the United States refers to the political movement to gain legal, social and economic equality for African Americans in the US. While slavery had ended over a century earlier, black Americans were systemically kept out of political and social life across America. The southern states were the most egregious in their application of segregation laws.
The video below from the BBC gives some context to the movement.
Perhaps the most important moment in the history of the [[@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)|Civil Rights Movement]] was when Rosa Parks refused to stand up for a white person on a Memphis bus. The video below gives the context for this moment of courage.
Civil Rights leaders did not all agree on how equality should be achieved. Martin Luther King , the most famous of Civil Rights leaders, sought equality through non-violent protest. He had his detractors, however, among them Malcolm X from the Nation of Islam and later Stokely Carmichael of the militant Black Panther movement. The videos below illustrate these differences.
King: "I Have a Dream"
Malcolm X: "Who taught you to hate what God gave you"
Malcolm X: Stop Begging The White Man and Stop Apologizing to the White Man
This video mashes clips of Malcolm X's speech with clips from various film texts that reinforced helpless stereotypes of African Americans.
Stokely Carmichael: "We Need a Black United Front"